The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences was founded in 1998 to help drive the progress of the Internet and evolving forms of new media. The academy selects the nominees and winners for the Webby Awards.

Membership is by invitation only. A partial list of past and present academy members include:

• Scott Adams, cartoonist, Dilbert
• Serena Altschul , journalist, CBS News
• Katie Arnold, managing editor, Outside magazine
• John Perry Barlow, co-founder and vice chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Beck, musician
• Björk, musician and actor
• David Boaz, executive vice president, Cato Institute
• David Bowie, musician
• Richard Branson, chairman and founder, Virgin Atlantic Airways
• Bernie Brillstein , founder, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
• Phil Bronstein , executive editor, The San Francisco Chronicle
• Tina Brown, commentator and CNBC host
• Vint Cerf, senior vice president, MCI
• Julia Child, chef
• Collin Cole, president - Digital Media, frog design
• Francis Ford Coppola, film director
• Elizabeth Daley, dean, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California
• Esther Dyson, publisher and editor
• Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle Corporation
• Rob Glaser, CEO, RealNetworks
• Ira Glass, host of This American Life, Public Radio International
• Carl Goodman, curator, American Museum of the Moving Image
• Jerry Greenfield, co-founder, Ben & Jerry's
• Jim Griffith , moderator, rec.humor.funny
• Matt Groening, creator, The Simpsons
• Peter Guber, chairman, Mandalay Pictures
• Julia Butterfly Hill, activist and author, Circle of Life Foundation
• Arianna Huffington, political columnist
• Mizuko Ito, visiting scholar, USC Annenberg Center for Communications
• David S. Jackson, editor, http://DefendAmerica.gov/, U.S. Department of Defense
• Guy Kawasaki, founder, http://Garage.com/
• Isaac Kerlow, director - Digital Production, the Walt Disney Company
• John Kilcullen, president and publisher, Billboard.com
• Raph Koster, creative director, Sony Online Entertainment
• Dan Lynch , chairman, Lynch Enterprises
• Virginia McHugh, executive director, Association Montessori Internationale USA
• Seymour Papert, author, Connected Family
• Joseph Patel, writer and producer, MTV News
• Tom Peters, author, In Search of Excellence
• Kim Polese, chairman, Marimba, Inc.
• Larry Rinder, curator of contemporary art, The Whitney Museum of American Art
• Jennifer Ringley, proprietress, JenniCam
• Anita Roddick, president, The Body Shop
• Marina Rosenfeld , artist and composer
• Robert Senn, executive vice president, the Grammy Awards
• Doug Sery, editor, MIT Press
• Richard Stallman, Chief GNUisance, GNU Project
• Sister Patricia Stanley, Technical Support, Sisters of St. Joseph
• Cyndi Stivers, president and editor-in-chief, Time Out NY
• Nadine Strossen, president, ACLU
• Sherry Turkle, director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
• Dennis Valle, director of New Media, Dolce & Gabbana Spa
• Katrina vanden Heuval, editor-in-chief, The Nation
• Hal Varian, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Karen Watson, New Media Project development officer, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Jonathan Weber, editor-in-chief, Industry Standard
• David Wetherell, chairman and CEO, CMGI, Inc.
• Bebo White, historical web artifact, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• Judy Wieder, editor-in-chief, The Advocate
• Gail Williams, director of communities, Salon.com: The WELL & Table Talk

External link

• Academy's website